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Brian Daboll didn't exactly lay out his 10-point plan for Rebooting the Robot this week, did he? The Miami Dolphins' new offensive coordinator was practically jumping out of his skin at Wednesday's rollout until he heard Chad Henne's name for the first time, four questions in. If there is such a thing as a verbal wince, this was it. "Well, Chad, yeah – he's on our roster," Daboll said, dialing down the enthusiasm about four loud...

Stanford's Andrew Luck and Baylor's Robert Griffin III are viewed as two possible franchise quarterbacks. But will the promise match the production? Most NFL insiders expected Luck and Griffin will be the top two picks in the 2012 NFL draft. But which of these two athletic quarterbacks will have the most productive NFL career? And how long will it take them to enter the ranks of the league's elites? In this first of a seven part series the Sun-Sentinel breaks down the draft's top two arms, and the rest of the field.

Ryan Tannehill's supporters have plenty of excuses for why he was a bottom-tier starting quarterback in the NFL last season. Tannehill was a rookie with 20 college starts at Texas A&M. Tannehill needed to become familiar with the speed of the NFL game. Tannehill didn't have the best weapons around him as a rookie. The Dolphins didn't allow Tannehill to throw many passes in the red zone. ALL of these excuses are accurate! I've heard them all, and you've probably used them all to prop up the player South Florida hopes will become the Miami Dolphins' franchise quarterback.

Patrick Peterson has been treated like a thoroughbred his entire life. Ever since his father put a football in his crib he's been groomed to become an NFL star. "Since I came out of the womb," Peterson said of his NFL aspirations. The goal was to get this former Blanche Ely High standout to this point, at the starting line of the biggest race of his life, and today is Peterson's Kentucky Derby. With a fast 40-time at the NFL Combine, and an impressive showing in his position drills, Peterson could go from a consensus top-five pick in April's NFL Draft to the No. 1 overall selection.

I'm on record predicting Super Bowl XLVIII will be nicknamed the Manning Bowl because Archie Manning's two sons will battle for NFL supremacy. Peyton Manning's seven touchdown performance in the NFL opener against the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens makes me feel pretty confident about one side of that prediction. Now Eli Manning and the New York Giants have to do their part by beating the Dallas Cowboys this week, proving that the Giants should be viewed as the best team in the NFC East, which I believe is the toughest division in the NFL. This year I'll be doing Power Rankings each month, and my assessments of each team will be based on more than just quarterbacks, and win-loss totals.

ESPN draft guru Mel Kiper Jr. claims he wasn't a big fan of Chad Henne when the four-year starter at the University of Michigan was a top rated quarterback in the 2008 draft, and his opinion of the Miami Dolphins' starter the past two seasons clearly hasn't changed.Kiper destroyed Henne at the end of a two-hour conference call ESPN put together on Wednesday, pointing out that many of Henne's issues with accuracy have plagued this former second-round pick since he was in college. However, Henne was universally rated as one of that draft classes top five quarterbacks, and coincidentally he was taken behind Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco and Brian Brohm, drafted by the Dolphins with the 57th pick in 2008.

It's impossible to avoid the comparisons. University of Florida interior lineman Mike Pouncey looks exactly like his brother Maurkice Pouncey, as he should considering they are identical twins. Maurkice also starred at UF before becoming a first-round pick for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Considering Maurkice made it to the Pro Bowl as a rookie, many are wondering if Mike plays like his brother? "I think I block in the open field better, but like I said, we're the same player," Mike boasted.

The law of supply and demand usually rules when it comes to the quarterback position in the NFL draft. Ryan Mallet sat behind Chad Henne at Michigan. Can he beat him out in the NFL? Quarterback is the one spot that most teams, except the few with elite passers, need an upgrade in, either at the starter spot or the backup. But the lack of quality prospects being developed by college programs (that damn spread) has created a demand that pushes up everyone's value. That's why we normally see a quarterback selected No. 1 Ã?